Everything Old Is New Again And Almost Like Being In Amish Country

    Friday morning mom was up for a shopping trip and so was I, so she and I  headed out to Walmart to the store’s fabrics department  where my mom, with her flair for interior décor, helped me pick out some material to re-cover some old – but still perfectly functional  - chairs that go with an old - but still perfectly functional -  table I'd snagged from Tom’s parents’ basement for Tommy to use in his new apartment. 
     Tommy's new/old  table and chairs set was in fact Tom's and my first kitchen set, handed down to us when we were newly weds by a relative of Tom’s .  As the chair covers were already ripped and worn when Tom and I received them,

I made these yellow gingham-checked covers that are still on the chairs, here hanging around Tommy's apartment waiting to be covered.

    Tom and I  used that first hand-me-down kitchen set for a few years until Tom’s parents got a new kitchen table and then they handed us down us their old one (which was newer than the old one we were currently using), the one around which they'd raised  their children  and around which we raised ours,

...and that we still use to this day and mayhaps will hand down to somebody else some day.

       When Tom’s parents gave us the above kitchen set we gave them in exchange our old kitchen set, which they kept in their basement  for the next 35 or so years on the chance that someone else might someday need a kitchen set.
         Good thing right?, because Tommy needed a kitchen set and there we were.  Slap a new set of slip covers on those chairs and the set right is back in commission.
     And That’s how we roll.
     Anyway, my mom and I found a few  patterns and colors of fabric at Walmart that we thought had some slap to them:

     Then my mom spotted this bolt,

  ...which we both agreed would be the perfect coordinated match with Tommy's  hand-me-down burgundy  sofa.

      So I bought several yards and now need only take apart the old yellow checked chair covers to use for a pattern for the new tan and burgundy-striped covers, which will make the old kitchen set new again.

      When we came home from Walmart my mom made us sandwiches for lunch,

...insisting that Tom and I relax as we were on vacation.
     After lunch we wiled away the afternoon watching old TV shows, napping,

.....Tom and I taking a walk around my mother’s beautiful neighborhood,

…until it was time to go out for dinner at the Knights of Columbus  Friday night fish-fry at my mom’s church hall. 

     We were back home by 6:30 and the three of us spent the evening sitting around talking, reading the paper, playing with the cats, drinking tea and eating sweets.
    “This is kind of like being in Amish Country,”  Tom observed.  (see post from 2/26/2016)
     “Yeah,” I agreed.
    It was nice.